St John's Church and graveyard including boundary walls and gatepiers, Glasgow Road, Camelon, Falkirk

St John’s Church in Camelon, Falkirk, is a neo-Romanesque former parish church designed by David Rhind and constructed between 1839 and 1841. Located on Glasgow Road, the main route through Camelon, it was built of squared and coursed rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings, incorporating projecting string and eaves courses. In 1922, Peter Macgregor Chalmers designed a chancel and aisle, which were added by 1924.

The north elevation, which faces the road, is three-bay and gabled, with a projecting, parapetted two-storey porch flanked by buttresses topped with pyramidal finials. The design creates a screen, with projecting walls concealing the nave behind. The porch features a tripartite window with impost mouldings and colonettes, above an arched entrance that is now boarded up. A spired octagonal bellcote sits atop the north gable.

The west elevation is four-bay, with a two-storey, single-bay pitched roof porch addition from around 1923 to the south. The east elevation is also four-bay, incorporating a 1923 aisle addition that occupies the two south bays. The rear (south) elevation is gabled and adjoins early 1920s additions. The central chancel contains three round-headed windows. The southwest porch has five rectangular windows, and a small doorway is found in a single-storey addition to the southeast.

The windows are predominantly round-arched, featuring two-lights with simple tracery and plain glazing. The roofs are pitched and slated, with ashlar stone skews.

The interior, as seen in 2018, was refurbished in the early 1920s, and no original decorative features from the mid-19th century remain. Surviving features from the 1920s refurbishment include a kingpost truss roof, timber pews, and galleries over the north end and east aisle.

The church is surrounded by a rectangular graveyard enclosed by a tall boundary wall constructed of coursed rubble with rounded copes, dating to around 1840. Square-plan ashlar corner and gate piers, topped with pyramidal copes, stand on the north boundary along Glasgow Road, with cast iron gates between them. The graveyard contains gravestones ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1960s, with a concentration from the later 19th century. Several gravestones are attached to the boundary wall, including a cast iron one dated 1870 erected by James and Margaret Taylor.